Ross of OttawaNov 2, 2022

That #Guardian article on #Mastodon today has inaccuracies and implicit bias in its perspective.

"While technically anyone can spin up a Mastodon server, most users agree that the network has a left-leaning bent."

This propensity to push everything into right-vs-left polarization is annoying. Masto users seem to have a higher education level on average, and being well-informed, factual, and evidence-based get labeled "left" as if those things are some sort of political position.

Show threadJohn ConwayNov 2, 2022
@ottaross It's also completely false, Gab and Truth Social use Mastodon!
Show threadML2
@john @ottaross I saw that. Gab and Truth Social may have been based on Mastodon, but they currently have ActivityPub turned off, so they aren't even accessible from Fedi
Nov 2, 2022 at 8:28pmWeb
Show threadJohn ConwayNov 2, 2022
@mathlover2 @ottaross Yeah, that's fair enough. There are a lot of edgelord instances out there though, not sure you'd call them left-wing. They may have been de-federated from mastodon.social etc though, making them less visible if you come in that way.